Advanced Inorganic Chemistry: Applications in Everyday Life

Advanced Inorganic Chemistry: Applications in Everyday Life connects key topics on the subject with actual experiences in nature and everyday life. Differing from other foundational texts with this emphasis on applications and examples, the text uniquely begins with a focus on the shapes (geometry) dictating intermolecular forces of attractions, leading to reactivity between molecules of different shapes.

From this foundation, the text explores more advanced topics, such as: Ligands and Ligand Substitution Processes with an emphasis on Square-Planar Substitution and Octahedral Substitution Reactions in Inorganic Chemistry and Transition Metal Complexes, with a particular focus on Crystal-Field and Ligand-Field Theories, Electronic States and Spectra and Organometallic, Bioinorganic Compounds, including Carboranes and Metallacarboranes and their applications in Catalysis, Medicine and Pollution Control.

Throughout the book, illustrative examples bring inorganic chemistry to life. For instance, biochemists and students will be interested in how coordination chemistry between the transition metals and the ligands has a direct correlation with cyanide or carbon monoxide poisoning (strong-field Cyanide or CO ligand versus weak-field Oxygen molecule).

Engaging discussion of key concepts with examples from the real worldValuable coverage from the foundations of chemical bonds and stereochemistry to advanced topics, such as organometallic, bioinorganic, carboranes and environmental chemistryUniquely begins with a focus on the shapes (geometry) dictating intermolecular forces of attractions, leading to reactivity between molecules of different shapes

Part 1. Foundations: Concepts in Chemical Bonding and Stereochemistry 1. Electronic Structure: Quantum Theory Revisited 2. Molecular Geometries 3. Molecular Symmetry—Part I: Point Group Assignment 4. Group Theory: Matrix Representation and Character Tables

Part 2. Advanced Topics-1: Introduction to Ligands and Metal Complexes 5. Ligands and d-Block Metal Complexes 6. Review of Bonding Theories for d-Block Metal Complexes 7. Coordination Chemistry: Reaction Mechanisms and Their Influencing Factors

Part 3. Advanced Topics-2: Electronic Spectra, Clusters & Isolobal Fragments 8. Coordination Chemistry: Electronic Spectra 9. Cluster Chemistry and Isolobal Fragments

Part 4. Advanced Topics-3: Organometallic Chemistry and Catalysis 10. Organometallic Chemistry 11. Catalysis With Organometallics

Part 5. Advanced Topics-4: Bioinorganic Chemistry and Applications 12. Bioinorganic Chemistry and Applications